Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Along with S N N Sankaralinga Iyer, he co-founded India Cements. He was also responsible for other companies such as South India Shippng Corporation. He is known to have laid the foundation of industrial India post-independence.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

He catalysed a tidal wave of industrial regeneration and social engineering in pre-independent North India with JK Organisation. To rival imports from Manchester, he set up JK Cotton Spinning & Weaving Mills Co. Ltd. Many other businesses followed that helped India to become self-reliant.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Son of Kamlapat Singhania, he with his brothers Padampat Singhania and Kailashpat Singhania expanded the business in a big way. They were pioneers in setting up a mini steel plant in 1924, and the first Indian Jute Mill in Uttar Pradesh in 1929.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Apart from being a prominent industrialist, he has also served as Member of the Rajya Sabha and was an educationist. Some of his businesses include textiles, chemicals, fertiliser, sugar, and media. He was the second son of Ghanshyam Das Birla.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

His family was one of the oldest traders and distributors in north-east and Kolkata. Nahata emerged as a leading social leader and philanthropist, associated with more than 60 socio-religious organisations. He was also the first person to start road transportation in the difficult and inhabitable terrain of Tripura that helped in two way traffic and boost economic development in the area.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

This Danish engineer, along with his schoolmate Soren Kristian Toubro, started the most prominent engineering and infrastructure company of the country - Larsen and Toubro - in 1938. Both of them were strongly committed to develop India's engineering capabilities.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Launched his career by pioneering textile business in the country, he rapidly expanded and diversified. He had rubber plantations in Malaysia, tin mines in Burma, insurance companies in Kolkata, hotels in Mumbai, theatres in Chennai and a private airline. Even British recognised his business acumen and he was knighted in 1946 at the age of 37. He took the lead in responding to government's call asking industrialists to help educate India, and set up string of institutions that laid the foundation of the Alagappa University.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Father of Praful Patel, he was a hugely successful businessperson and philanthropist, who started string of educational institutes in and around Gondia. At the beginning of his career, he joined his uncle in bidi trading and quickly set up a factory for forward integration of the business. After that he started expanding and never had to look back.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Son of Murugappa Group founder Dewan Bahadur A M Murugappa Chettiar, he took the business to new heights. A philanthropist, he is considered to be the leader among the industrialists who enabled the industrial advancement in South India, post 1947.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

He was founder of Walchand group of companies that established India's first modern shipyard, first aircraft factory and first car factory. He also ran construction companies, sugar plantation, sugar factory, confectionery, engineering companies and so on.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

A prominent industrialist, he was chairman and managing director of the Jagran Prakashan publisher - the owner of country's largest selling Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran. He has also won many awards for his contribution to journalism.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Among the first Indians to graduate from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, he was instrumental behind the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group. He is credited with manufacturing diesel engine indigenously that competed with imported ones.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

For his rags-to-riches tale, he is the most idolised businessperson the country. After working in Yemen, he moved to Mumbai to start his own business in spices. Later, he moved into textile and founded Reliance Industries, which is one of the most valuable companies in India.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

When a young man named Ardeshir Godrej gave up law and turned to lock making in the year 1897, a legend in the field of Indian industry was born. The word "Godrej" etched into the metal of his Anchor Brand locks became a symbol of self- reliance in the years that followed. He also made a scientific discovery by making soaps from vegetable oil instead of animal tallow. These stamps were released to commemorate the centenary of the Godrej industrial group. It features Ardeshir and Phirojsha Godrej, against the backdrop of graphics depicting science, technology and entrepreneurship.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

J R D Tata stood out as one of the great personalities of India in the twentieth century. Born in Paris in 1904 he was appointed the chairman of Tata Sons Ltd at the age of 34 . With his charismatic and forward-looking leadership, Tata, in a career spanning well over half a century, not only led the Tata Group to new heights of achievement but also set standards for Indian industry as a whole.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Well known for his role in the freedom movement, he started life as a trader. After setting up his first jute mill, he expanded into cement, chemicals, rayon, and steel tubes. He was dedicated educationist and founded at Pilani the Birla Education Trust and Birla Institute of Technology and Science. He was offered knighthood, which he declined.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

Founder of Kirloskar group, he started his life as a school teacher and later on opened a cycle repair shop in Belgaum. From this modest beginning, he went on to revolutionised Indian agriculture by introducing iron ploughs in place of traditional wooden ploughs.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

He had the unique honour of being the first in many fields. He was the first Indian who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society; he was the first to introduce lighting by gas in Bombay; and he was the first to build an ocean going steam vessel in India. India Post released the stamps to recognise his innovations and contribution to the country.

Industrialists and companies featured on postage stamps

He was honoured with the stamps as recognition of his services in the industrialisation of the country. He joined his father's trading firm in 1858 and had an outstandingly successful business career during which he made a massive contribution to the country's industrial development. He set up cotton mills in Mumbai and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron & Steel Company, which is among the largest integrated steel mills in the world.